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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Bernard Comrie |
| ISBN: | 0195065115 9780195065114 |
| OCLC Number: | 22092266 |
| Notes: | "For the 1989 [sic] number of minor errors have been corrected and bibliographical material has been updated."--Pref. |
| Description: | xiii, 1025 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction / Bernard Comrie -- Indo-European languages / Philip Baldi -- Germanic languages / John A. Hawkins -- English / Edward Finegan -- German / John A. Hawkins -- Dutch / Jan G. Kooij -- Danish, Norwegian and Swedish / Einar Haugen -- Latin and the Italic languages / R.G.G. Coleman -- Romance languages / John N. Green -- French / Martin Harris -- Spanish / John N. Green -- Portuguese / Stephen Parkinson -- Italian / Nigel Vincent -- Rumanian / Graham Mallinson -- Slavonic languages / Bernard Comrie -- Russian / Bernard Comrie -- Polish / Gerald Stone -- Czech and Slovak --David Short -- Serbo-Croat / Greville Corbett -- Greek / Brian D. Joseph --Indo-Aryan languages / George Cardona -- Sanskrit / George Cardona -- Hindi-Urdu / Yamuna Kachru -- Bengali / M.H. Klaiman -- Iranian languages / J.R. Payne -- Persian / Gernot L. Windfuhr -- Pashto / D.N. Mackenzie -- Uralic languages / Robert Austerlitz -- Hungarian / Daniel Abondolo -- Finnish / Michael Branch -- Turkish and the Turkic languages / Jaklin Kornfilt -- Afroasiatic languages / Robert Hetzron -- Semitic languages / Robert Hetzron -- Arabic / Alan S. Kaye -- Hebrew / Robert Hetzron -- Hausa and the Chadic languages / Paul Newman -- Tamil and the Dravidian languages / Sanford B. Steever -- Tai languages / David Strecker -- Thai / Thomas John Hudak -- Vietnamese / Đình-Hoà Nguyẽ̂n -- Sino-Tibetan languages / Scott Delancey -- Chinese / Charles N. Li and Sandra A. Thompson -- Burmese / Julian K. Wheatley -- Japanese / Masayoshi Shibatani -- Korean / Nam-Kil Kim -- Austronesian languages / Ross Clark -- Malay (Indonesian and Malaysian) / D.J. Prentice -- Tagalog / Paul Schachter -- Niger-Kordofanian languages / Douglas Pulleyblank -- Yoruba / Douglas Pulleyblank -- Swahili and the Bantu languages / Benji Wald. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Bernard Comrie. |
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